Table 1.

Ascomycete species recovered from 45 individual house flies collected from two bovine hosts with active ringworm infections

Order	Fungi (previous record)a	No. of fliesb	CFUc	Freq.	Importanced
Agaricales	Asterophora parasitica Buillard	1	1	0.05
Capnodiales	Cladosporium sp. (5, 7)	10	69	3.11
	Cladosporium cladosporoides Fresen (4)	25	1681	75.82	Airborne at Texas cattle feedlots (Wilson et al. 2002); Flies from horse stables in Germany (Gestmann et al. 2012)
	Cladosporium oxysporum Berkeley & Curtis	3	53	2.39	Human cutaneous phaeohyphomycosis infections (Gugnani et al. 2006)
	Cladosporium perangustum Bensch et al.	4	47	2.12
	Cladosporium sphaerospermum Penzig	1	15	0.68	Human respiratory tract infections (Yew et al. 2016)
	Cladosporium tenuissimum Cooke	2	38	1.71
Eurotiales	Aspergillus sp. (1, 3, 7)	2	37	1.67
	Aspergillus deflectus Fennel & Raper	1	2	0.09	Canine mycosis (Robinson et al. 2000)
	Aspergillus ochraceopetaliformis Batista et al	1	4	0.18	Onychomycosis (Brasch et al. 2009)
	Aspergillus subramanianii Visagie et al	1	1	0.05
	Aspergillus sydowii Bainier & Sartory	1	12	0.54	Onychomycosis (Nouripour-Sisakht et al. 2015)
	Aspergillus versicolor Vuillemin	2	7	0.32	Canine aspergillosis (Zhang et al. 2012); Allergen of swine production facilities (Sabino et al. 2012)
	Penicillium sp. (1, 2, 5, 6, 7)	2	10	0.45
	Penicillium citrinum Thorn (3)	4	1	0.05	Allergen in cattle production facilities (Abd-Elall et al. 2009)
	Penicillium griseofulvum Diercykx	2	65	2.93
Hypocreales	Acremonium sp.	1	1	0.05
	Acremonium brachypenium Gams	2	17	0.77	Triatomine-associated (Moraes et al. 2001)
	Acremonium persicinum (Gams)	1	2	0.09	Opportunistic human pathogen, lung (Perdomo et al. 2011)
	Acremonium potronii Vuillemin	1	2	0.09	Human keratitis (Forster et al. 1975)
	Nectria mauritiicola Hennings	1	2	0.09
	Stillbella fimetaria Persoon	1	1	0.05	Colonizes dung of herbivores (Lehr et al. 2006)
Microascales	Scopulariopsis chartarum Smith	1	1	0.05
Onygenales	Gymnascella aurantiaca Peck	2	18	0.81
Pleosporales	Alternaria sp. (1, 2, 6)	2	4	0.18
	Alternaria alternata Fries (4)	1	1	0.05
	Epicoccum nigrum Link (3)	1	58	2.62	Fungal sinusitis in the southeastern US (Noble et al. 1997)
	Leptosphaerulina sp.	1	1	0.05
	Phaeosphaeria sp.	1	1	0.05
Saccharomycetales	Candida panamensis Suh et al.	1	1	0.05	Beetle-associated (Suh et al. 2006)
	Kluyveromyces marxianus Hansen	3	21	0.95	Cow and goat milk (Delavenne et al. 2011)
	Pichia jadinii Sartory et al.	1	28	1.26
	Pichia kudriavzevii Boidin et al.	1	1	0.05	Bovine mastitis, Dairy cattle rumenal fluid (Hayashi et al. 2013, Sirisan et al. 2013)
Xylaniales	Hansfordia sinuosae Li & Cheng	1	14	0.63

^aFungi previously reported in the literature are noted. ¹Davari et al. (2012), ²Kassiri et al. (2015), ³Phoku et al. (2016), ⁴Sales et al. (2002), ⁵Srivoramas et al. (2012), ⁶Yousef (2014), ⁷Zarrin et al. (2007).

^bTotal number of flies from which particular fungal isolates were recovered.

^cNumber of colony-forming units (CFU).

^dReferences to importance of fungal isolates as disease agents or allergens.